Belfast Primark reopening date revealed
We've finally got a date! 🛍
Fours year later, doors at the newly refurbished five-storey flagship Primark store in Belfast will open on Tuesday 1st November at 10am.
Now featuring a brand new Disney café, a new nail and beauty studio for customers to pamper themselves while in store and a new fifth floor which will house a brand-new Home department.
The reopening of The Bank Buildings follows four years of complex redevelopment including significant retention, demolition, and re-building works at the site, with the aim of bringing this historic building back to life.
The newly renovated store is 76% bigger in size compared to the original site, as the existing store on Castle Street will merge with the newly restored Bank Buildings to create a new flagship Primark store in the heart of Belfast.
From November, customers in Belfast and beyond can shop the latest affordable autumn and winter fashion trends in addition to Primark’s great value essentials across women’s, men’s, kids’ and homeware, beauty, and accessories - including Primark’s ever-growing Primark Cares label, all part of its commitment to make more sustainable fashion affordable for everyone.
Primark also recently announced its commitment to protecting prices on more than a thousand of its essential kids’ products this autumn as it seeks to help family finances go further amid the rising cost of living.
In advance of the reopening, the smaller Primark store at Fountain House on Donegall place will close, with all employees transferring back to the new Bank Buildings store.
Primark will also open a brand-new store in Rushmere Shopping Centre, Craigavon later this year, with work progressing at the new site alongside the final touches to the Bank Buildings store.
Jacqui Byers, Primark Northern Ireland Area Manager, commented on the reopening:
“We are now in the final weeks of preparation to reopen our Bank Buildings store. Restoring this much-loved historic building has been an important and passionate project for our business. Our teams have approached it with such care and consideration, of course with the wider city of Belfast in mind.”
“We would like to thank our colleagues, customers, the business community, and wider city of Belfast once again for their continued support following the fire, as without them we would not be in this position to reopen The Bank Buildings. We look forward to welcoming everyone to our beautiful new Primark store in the heart of Belfast next month to celebrate this significant moment with us.”
The blaze at the Primark store in the Bank Buildings started on 28 August 2018 and burned for three days.
Fourteen businesses were unable to trade for months, and the cordon at Castle Place led to a drop in footfall in the retail heart of the city.
The fire broke out at the top of the five-storey bank building in the heart of the city
A birds eye view of the smoke across the city
The scene in Belfast City Centre on Day Two of the fire which gutted the Primark shop
Fourteen businesses were unable to trade for months following the blaze
The city came to a stand still on August 28th
Work to reconstruct the fire-damaged Bank Buildings
Work to reconstruct the fire-damaged Bank Buildings
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